🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...
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My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. The general argument is that starving an energy-hungry growth model of cheap renewables in an era of energy supply-chain shocks and booming AI data centers is bad economic policy. Common sense, really. prosyn.org/EjCZBmq
The US Economy Cannot Grow Without Renewables
Daniel Driscoll warns that the Trump administration’s grim determination to ignore clean energy will undercut consumption.
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1/ The purpose of green industrial policy has inverted. It used to pay for a public good: clean energy that cost more, benefiting everyone. Now it captures advantages a country keeps for itself. That shift, from a shared cost to a prize seized, is the story of the transition.
How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵
“Eventually, the platform becomes little more than a money-extraction machine—a hellscape for users and a barely profitable but inescapable black hole for business customers.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...
A contribution with @pbougette.bsky.social to ORDO focusing on the blurred boundary between competition law and regulation, particularly when behavioural remedies are designed to be revisable over time. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @univcotedazur.bsky.social, @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social
The problem is not the service economy per se, but the *transition* to it. In the US, aggregate employment recovered, but the costs of adjustment were highly uneven, with job losses concentrated in specific regions.
Good piece by Palma Polyak. In a sense she is illustrating the global version of the Kalecki Paradox, or what Fed chairman Marriner Eccles explained in the 1930s: without rising consumption you cannot justify rising production, and without rising wages you cannot sustain rising consumption.
Palma Polyak@palmapolyak.bsky.social · 2mo agoEurope is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...
Europe is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...
China's Growth Model Has No Endgame
The European debate about China is obsessed with production. It spends remarkably little time thinking about demand.
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JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...
Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify
How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.
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That universities have *not* done this, and in fact have aided and abetted AI intrusion into our education system, is a clarion call for dramatic reform. (After we defeat the fascism, that is.)
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe reason people like the Pope’s AI missive is because there is simply no other institution has taken the side of humanity in the humanities sense. I’m not Catholic, but I am a human who cares about the human mind and the poetics Catholics call a soul.
I wish more editors were guided by what I call the "wtf test". It's more useful than it sounds. Let me explain. 1/4
Incredibly important work for souring the kool aid
Eddie Yang@eddieyang.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
“the most immediate risk is “mediocrity at scale,” a flood of work that isn’t wrong enough to dismiss but isn’t interesting enough to advance anything.” @pardoguerra.bsky.social pardoguerra.org/2026/05/09/i...
It’s time to get rid of the peer-reviewed paper
The peer-reviewed journal article, perhaps the single most important device behind the expansion of scientific knowledge in the last century, is an extraordinarily expensive way to share novelty: e…
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1/ New piece on the NEIS Center Substack by @luukschmitz.bsky.social: conditionality in industrial policy isn't just a safeguard against waste — it also has real costs. And those costs are systematically underweighted in the current debate. neiscenter.substack.com/p/industrial...
Industrial Policy Conditionality: A Guide for Users
Public debate treats conditionality as a single dial to be turned up or down to impose stricter discipline on private actors. That framing obscures the choices that actually matter.
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Must read by @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social "This, we argue, is the pathway for the Santa Marta countries to achieve the decarbonized sovereignty imperative—the strategic pursuit of decarbonization as a matter of national security" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...
Against Carbon Shock Therapy | Daniela Gabor & Benjamin Braun
The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a
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War → energy shock → inflation. This time: Iran. But we saw this already after Russia invaded Ukraine. Back then, the shock ignited some big debates on monetary autonomy and dollar dominance In a new paper w/@palmapolyak.bsky.social we go back to that moment. A short thread👇
There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
I come out of this convinced that we know much abt European structural blindspots & strategic weaknesses (some US-caused); we know less how to handle the East politically. We get China's economic downstream impacts; now we need to learn how politicians & voters want to treat China’s economic might.
Enjoyed the conversations in Hannover at the political economy of European industrial policy event organized this week by Hellen Callaghan, @trgn.bsky.social & Bob Hancké. The presence, clear-eyedness and energy of the EC speaker, Maive Rute (DG Grow) were a highlight.
I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Wir befinden uns in der größten fossilen Energiekrise. Die Ölproduktion is so stark gefallen wie die Nachfrage 2020 mit COVID. Die Bundesregierung sollte schleunigst darauf reagieren statt die Zeit mit Debatten über Mehrwertsteuererhöhung & Fracking zu vergeuden. Mein Beitrag im @freitag.de heute.
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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1/9 Reuters: "China said that Mexico's trade measures against it, including tariff increases, constitute trade and investment barriers and that it had the right to take countermeasures." rld/china/china-says-it-has-right-retaliate-against-mexicos-tariff-hikes-2026-03-25/
We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
